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CCIA's solution: Break up Microsoft
News In a White Paper due for release later this spring, the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) will argue that the courts must break Microsoft into several pieces or face yet another round of protracted antitrust litigation...
[March 23, 1999, 9:04]
CCIA sticking to its guns
News Ed Black, president of the CCIA, has defended his organisation's decision to take a settlement payment from Microsoft. The Washington DC-based CCIA (Computer and Communications Industry Association) this month put to bed an antitrust suit with...
[November 25, 2004, 16:20]
CCIA chief pockets $10m from MS settlement
News When Microsoft settled its antitrust battle with the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) earlier this year, one of the CCIA's top execs and an outspoken critic of Microsoft was paid nearly $10m.
[November 24, 2004, 12:10]
The CCIA report - why the remedies are unfair
Talkback As John Carroll thinks about the CCIA report, I think similarly about his report. He accuses them of being anti-MS at every opportunity in the report. I accuse him of being pro-MS at every opportunity in his article.
[October 13, 2003, 16:39]
The CCIA report - why the remedies are unfair
Talkback I would have loved to write a counter article to this, and rip it to peices, but it would be a lot of work for no reward. John Carroll obviously knows little about Adam Smith, Free Market Economics and the impact of a monopoly on price movements...
[October 16, 2003, 8:44]
CCIA chief pockets $10m from MS settlement
Talkback One word. NAUSEATING!
[November 28, 2004, 19:58]
CCIA vs Microsoft - the core issues
Talkback Excellent column so far. I look forward to reading the rest of it. You mention one point that I really wish Unix fans would get: Windows is integrated ONLY in that it all comes in one box. Windows is no more one monolithic thing than Unix is and in...
[October 7, 2003, 19:35]
CCIA vs Microsoft - the core issues
Talkback Why then does Microsofct change the namme of its "security initiative" AKA Paladiam and a dozen other names? That is what most of us who have looked at the problem are scared of. In the name of "fighting piracy", MS will determine what can be run...
[October 8, 2003, 17:04]
The CCIA report - why the remedies are unfair
Talkback Hint: CCIA didn't write the report and didn't even pay the people who wrote it. Hmm. On the first day this series began, there was a flood of criticism of these poorly reasoned, factually inaccurate pieces and then, suddenly -- POOF!
[October 12, 2003, 1:37]
CCIA vs Microsoft - the core issues
Talkback Whilst I thoroughly agree with the statement on the issues and the problems that this causes (today or later) for the users, it is difficult to see what can be done about it in a practical sense. As a real dinosaur, I remember the days when there...
[October 14, 2003, 11:53]
IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears
News The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) said the purchase of Platform Solutions (not to be confused with Platform Computing, a different company) is dangerous for the mainframe industry because it extends the control of IBM...
[July 3, 2008, 17:01]
Microsoft $1bn schools offer 'would inflict great harm'
News Microsoft's proposed settlement for more than 100 outstanding private antitrust cases against it would inflict "great harm" upon the technology markets, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in a letter to the judge...
[November 27, 2001, 12:35]
Trade groups steal antitrust show
News Ed Black, CEO of the CCIA, said he's thrilled the judge singled out the brief. Jackson spent much of Wednesday's afternoon session asking specific questions about portions of the CCIA-SIIA brief. According to its Web site the CCIA has 33 members...
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Microsoft domination 'threatens US security'
News The report will be presented to several key lawmakers and administration officials at the CCIA's 2003 Washington Caucus on Wednesday, according to the event's agenda. The paper is the latest salvo fired by the CCIA at Microsoft and, though the...
[September 24, 2003, 14:30]
Europe assisting US with IBM antitrust probe
News US industry association the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) said the DOJ inquiry was related to a complaint it lodged regarding IBM's business practices. CCIA chief executive Ed Black said that several of the association's...
[October 9, 2009, 17:51]
Six judges return to Microsoft suit
News Robert Bork, a former judge who is being paid by CCIA and SIIA to challenge the settlement, argued in court on Tuesday that the deal was vague and ambiguous. CCIA's members include AOL, Sun, Red Hat and Oracle, and it distributed a recent study...
[November 5, 2003, 9:40]
Microsoft asks for emergency EU order
News If CCIA's request is granted, it would be able to use the opportunity to argue against Microsoft's request to throw out the European Commission's ruling. CCIA members include Microsoft rivals Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Red Hat and Oracle.
[June 25, 2004, 9:35]
EC says Microsoft probe goes on
News Although the CCIA was not available to comment following the settlement in the US, it recently released a statement saying it felt that the US Court of Appeals decision in June, which found Microsoft guilty of breaking competition law on eight...
[November 5, 2001, 12:32]
Apple joins critics of Microsoft deal
News On Monday, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) sent separate letters to Motz asking him to reject the proposed agreement. CCIA President Edward Black charged that "the court-ordered...
[November 28, 2001, 9:55]
Microsoft picks its battles
Leader At first take, Microsoft's announcement yesterday to settle long running disputes with Novell and trade group the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) appear to be just that. And more importantly, by securing Novell and the CCIA's...
[November 9, 2004, 11:43]
